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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeDaniel SMITH
(1748-1818)
Senate Years of Service:
1798-1799; 1805-1809Party: Democratic Republican;
Democratic RepublicanSMITH, Daniel, a Senator
from Tennessee; born in Stafford County, Va., October 29, 1748;
attended William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; became a
surveyor; moved to Augusta County, Va.; deputy surveyor of Augusta
County in 1773; fought in the Indian wars 1774; major of the
Washington County militia; high sheriff of Augusta County in 1780;
commissioned colonel in the Second Battalion and fought in several
battles of the Revolution; moved to Sumner County, Tenn., at the
close of the war; laid out the town of Nashville; member of the
North Carolina convention which ratified the United States
Constitution 1789; appointed by President George Washington
secretary of the territory south of the Ohio River in 1790; member
of the constitutional convention of 1796 to draw up a constitution
for the new State of Tennessee; made the first map of Tennessee;
general of State militia; appointed as a Democratic Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Andrew Jackson and served from October 6, 1798, to
March 3, 1799; elected as a Democratic Republican to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1805, to March 31, 1809,
when he resigned; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died at his
home, ‘Rock Castle,’ near Hendersonville, Sumner
County, Tenn., June 16, 1818; interment in the family burial ground
near his home.
Bibliography
Durham, Walter. Daniel Smith: Frontier Statesman. Gallatin,
Tenn.: Sumner County Library Board, 1976; Sioussat, St. George, ed.
”The Journal of Daniel Smith.” Tennessee Historical
Magazine (March 1915): 40-65.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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